You can't get promoted in the USAF nowadays without a degree, period. I don't know the cutoff, but enlisted troops need at least a 2-year CCAF degree to get to around E5 (?) and you won't find a Chief without at least a bachelors and they usually have masters degrees.
Frankly Serenety, your lack of drive for education makes me doubt you'd succeed at the USAF academy. It's tough there, and you have to really want it because there is no pot of gold at the end. There is no guarantee of pilot training even if you're medically qualified, and if you go to pilot training, there is no guarantee of what you'll fly or even that you'll fly anything, since UPT grads are being sent to UAVs.
You've got it backwards to some extent... You say you don't want education unless it leads directly to something you want, but the reality is that the degree is a key that will open a number of doors to opportunities. Yes, many great careers don't require degrees, but you will find that some paths are simply not available without a degree. There is no better time to get that degree than right after high school, because there will always be an excuse or perfectly valid reason to not get it later. And that means you will see opportunities pass you by.
For some, like urchin apparently, this isn't a big deal. But I have found far more people who wish they had a degree because of the options it would have given them, than people who wished they'd skipped that step and gone straight to whatever it is they ended up doing. A "real" bachelors of science degree (in something reasonably technical, not history of basket weaving or poetry) will conservatively add over $10,000 to your annual salary for the duration of your career. In the military, being an officer instead of enlisted will add anywhere from $5000 to $50,000 per year to your salary, the amount of difference increasing with each promotion. A pilot with 12 years of aviation service pulls down about $70,000 without bonuses. An enlisted flier with the same years of service gets a bit over half of that.
The degree is a key, and it will open doors. If you happen to actually USE what you learned in school in your job, that is just icing on the cake. But it's still a key.
If you don't know what to do or study in school, start out engineering or computers. That way you'll get some math out of the way as a freshman, that you'll need if you go into any technical degree program. You can always switch later, but if you start out sciences/engineering/computers, you won't be playing catch-up with the hard subjects as a sophomore or junior.
